The Team

A multidisciplinary powerhouse built to turn farmer needs into a flawless harvesting system.

RoboCilek isn’t just a technical prototype; it is a highly coordinated effort across hardware, software, quality planning, and business development. This aggressive cross-functional synergy is exactly how we move rapidly from raw field insights to a working autonomous harvesting reality.

7 members executing across engineering, quality, and market strategy 3 functional domains with absolute, clear ownership Cross-disciplinary coordination driving seamless system integration
Organization Functional structure first

We isolate complex technical problems so specialists can solve them without distraction.

Hardware Domain Physical realization

Owning power, kinematics, communication, actuator logic, and system integration.

Software Domain Perception & intelligence

Driving the vision pipeline, machine learning, segmentation, and ripeness classification.

Business Domain Quality & market fit

Leading QFD, customer discovery, positioning, and strategic product coherence.

Organizational Structure

Organized to move fast without breaking the system.

AgriPick operates with a highly focused functional structure. Each major problem area gets deep specialist focus, while relentless cross-disciplinary coordination ensures the final robot is a perfectly integrated machine.

Domain 01

Hardware Product

The physical realization layer. This team handles power electronics, embedded hardware, actuator interfacing, robotic arm feasibility, and critical low-level system integration.

  • Power architecture and regulated distribution
  • Robotic arm kinematics and motion feasibility
  • Embedded communication and strict sensor integration
Domain 02

Software Product

The intelligence layer. This group focuses purely on perception, machine learning, and the high-level decision logic that makes autonomous selective harvesting possible.

  • Image preprocessing and flawless instance segmentation
  • Ripeness classification and advanced perception logic
  • Model integration, evaluation, and on-device optimization
Domain 03

Business & Quality

The strategic anchor. This domain ensures that all technical work remains ruthlessly tied to real customer requirements, commercial viability, and entrepreneurial strategy.

  • Deep farmer interviews and operational market analysis
  • QFD mapping, quality planning, and ROI validation
  • Strategic alignment and strict documentation consistency
The Leadership

True innovation requires absolute accountability.

Every critical layer of the RoboCilek architecture is owned by a specific engineering or strategic lead. Meet the minds building the future of autonomous harvesting.

ZK

Zeynep Kirac

Power Systems Lead

Owns the entire power architecture, PCB-based distribution, precision voltage regulation, and stable power delivery across all subsystems.

EAO

Emir Alp Ozturk

Robotic Arm Kinematics Lead

Masters inverse kinematics and workspace analysis, guaranteeing the arm safely and repeatedly hits target harvest positions.

GS

Gizem Sahin

Embedded Communication Lead

Commands UART communication, sensor-level integration, and the low-level embedded backbone for real-time data exchange.

ISO

Idil Su Ozturk

Computer Vision Lead

Architects image preprocessing, instance segmentation, and the core vision logic driving our selective harvest decisions.

BM

Bugra Malkara

ML Integration Lead

Owns the end-to-end training, evaluation, deployment, and on-device optimization of our proprietary AI detection models.

USK

Umut Sukru Kaya

Market Analysis Lead

Drives farmer interviews, customer discovery, competitive positioning, and the direct translation of field insights into product strategy.

EIK

Emine Iclal Kupeli

Quality Planning Lead

Enforces QFD, documentation traceability, and total alignment between our technical progress, quality goals, and market demands.

How The Team Works

Clear ownership builds the parts. Flawless collaboration builds the robot.

In a highly complex system like RoboCilek, hardware, perception, control, and market logic constantly impact each other. We succeed because our integration decisions are entirely shared and transparent.

Parallel Execution

Responsibilities are strictly defined so hardware, software, and business development progress aggressively in parallel.

System-Level Alignment

Daily coordination guarantees that no single subsystem is optimized at the expense of the overall robotic workflow.

Risk-Aware Engineering

Integration hurdles, fruit-quality risks, and adoption barriers are surfaced instantly, rather than discovered at the end of the line.

Future Scalability

Our operational blueprint is designed to seamlessly transition into a scalable matrix model as we expand to new regions and product lines.

Our Capabilities

We don’t just build technology. We build agricultural solutions.

Our combined expertise covers the entire spectrum required to disrupt this industry: from deep machine learning and power electronics to boots-on-the-ground customer discovery.

Capability 01

Robotics & Kinematics

Mastering complex motion sequencing, strict repeatability, and highly safe actuator behavior.

Capability 02

Computer Vision & AI

Building massive custom datasets, deploying instance segmentation, and solving visual robustness under greenhouse lighting.

Capability 03

Embedded Systems

Writing bulletproof serial communication, real-time control logic, and deterministic FSM designs.

Capability 04

Power Electronics

Engineering smart battery configurations, voltage regulation, and perfectly stable mixed-load power delivery.

Capability 05

Quality & Product Planning

Executing strict QFD, ensuring absolute traceability, and locking technical features to genuine customer needs.

Capability 06

Business & Market Insight

Conducting ruthless operational constraint analysis, market segmentation, and clear adoption feasibility modeling.

The Next Step

AgriPick is built to execute, validate, and scale.

You’ve seen the minds behind the machine. Now, explore the exact technical architecture we’ve built, or dive into the business model that will push this technology into every greenhouse.